On: Understanding Jane Street

[jackblemming]

This and getting people to click more ads. What a great use of innovation and bright minds.

[nickkell → jackblemming]

It's trickle-down programming. They're inventing the next big database technology or whatever by doing busy work and that will eventually enable somebody else to produce something of actual value to mankind.

[jeffreyrogers → jackblemming]

Most of the hard problems in the world aren't technical and the ones that are have lots of people working on them.

[Hammershaft → jackblemming]

I agree, genuinely depressing to think of what is lost from talent being allocated this way.

[smabie → Hammershaft]

Ignoring the fact that liquidity provisioning is a very valuable service (if it wasn't, people wouldn't pay for it), what are you doing that is so world changing?